Merry Christmas!

 Merry Christmas!

MSA calls for Commissioner of Corrections to resign!

 

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Family of Texas corrections officer questions his death

From ABC News- Family of Texas corrections officer questions his death after inmate's life sentence.

Officer Jovian Motley died under mysterious circumstances in November 2023.

The family of a Texas corrections officer is still seeking answers after his death in what was supposed to be a routine inmate cell extraction.

Officer Jovian Motley died in the line of duty at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Wainwright Unit in Lovelady in November 2023. The official explanation is that he was assisting other officers in restraining the inmate when he died.

Earlier this month, inmate Jabari Lewis pleaded guilty to capital murder in Motley's death, and was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Motley's family says the sentencing did not bring them closure.

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Drones and prison contraband

 

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The PERA Correctional Retirement Plan is funded at 105%

While the Police and Fire Retirement Plan and the PERA General Plan are short, the PERA Correctional Plan is fully funded at 105%!

Please go here for more information: https://mncoretirementassociation.blogspot.com/2025/12/pera-correctional-plan-funded-at-105.html

Prison Guards foil Christmas contraband drop!!

 

Sometimes you can't make this up!!

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Copy of Hennepin County Policy on Transgender and Intersex Inmates

Below is a copy of the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office Jail Policy on Transgender and Intersex Inmates.

As Detention Home wrote about in June this is in conflict with Federal PREA laws. Including bans on cross gender strip searches and facilities must "implement policies and procedures that enable inmates to shower, perform bodily functions and change clothing without nonmedical staff of the opposite gender viewing their, breasts, buttocks or genetalia..."

Alpha News is covering women who were incarcerated at Shakopee Prison protesting against similar policies. “Forcing incarcerated women, who typically are nonviolent offenders, to share intimate spaces with these violent, predatory men is an act of cruelty that amounts to state-sanctioned torture and any rape that occurs under these circumstances must be understood as state-sanctioned,” added Bruss, a volunteer with Women’s Declaration International USA.  ALPHA NEWS

In this writers opinion Hennepin County is opening itself up to lawsuits under PREA. A Corrections Officers main duty is protecting inmates. Housing male and female inmates together leaves the door wide open for assaults on both the trans inmates and normal inmates who may be preyed upon. 

Sadly the current policy leaves Detention Deputies open to being sued if they put a trans inmate in the population of the opposite sex AND if they don't. They're damned if they do and damned if they don't.

 

After lawsuit new Hennepin County rules for 'trans' inmates

 

From the article:

According to Gender Justice, the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office is now required to:

• Use an inmate’s self-reported gender identity as the main way of determining their jail unit.
• Require regular training for jail staff.
• Use chosen names and pronouns for people in custody. 
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